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<blockquote data-quote="Thaumaturge" data-source="post: 6312291" data-attributes="member: 1927">Stop ruining my perceptions of the world.I hadn't ever thought of it in social contract terms, but you're right. And that probably explains why evil characters tend to be so disruptive, the players have an excuse to break any and all social contracts. (I've had players who haven't, but they seem to be the exception).The alignment also stands in for all of the minutiae we know about our friends and family that don't get fleshed out in character backgrounds. I know how my close friends, the ones I'd want to have at my back in a life or death situation, would react to a lot of ethical and moral situations. I'm not going to mandate &quot;character bibles&quot; for each character at my table and then mandate the reading of each. &quot;LG&quot; is a good facsimile for &quot;this guy does his best to uphold law and order, he gets things wrong, but he mostly does what is right by our shared moral standard, based upon my time knowing him.&quot; And &quot;CG&quot; is short for &quot;this lady doesn't like to be told what to do, because she's had specific problems with authoritarian figures before, but she wants to help people.&quot;I agree people with people who say alignment being mind-control or a straightjacket is no fun. We just don't use them that way at my table.Thaumaturge.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thaumaturge, post: 6312291, member: 1927"] Stop ruining my perceptions of the world. I hadn't ever thought of it in social contract terms, but you're right. And that probably explains why evil characters tend to be so disruptive, the players have an excuse to break any and all social contracts. (I've had players who haven't, but they seem to be the exception). The alignment also stands in for all of the minutiae we know about our friends and family that don't get fleshed out in character backgrounds. I know how my close friends, the ones I'd want to have at my back in a life or death situation, would react to a lot of ethical and moral situations. I'm not going to mandate "character bibles" for each character at my table and then mandate the reading of each. "LG" is a good facsimile for "this guy does his best to uphold law and order, he gets things wrong, but he mostly does what is right by our shared moral standard, based upon my time knowing him." And "CG" is short for "this lady doesn't like to be told what to do, because she's had specific problems with authoritarian figures before, but she wants to help people." I agree people with people who say alignment being mind-control or a straightjacket is no fun. We just don't use them that way at my table. Thaumaturge. [/QUOTE]

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